CompuServe Messages

Well David 🙂 It's an outstanding video production and multimedia tool that you plug into your Amiga (mine's in an A3000)! It's outstanding because it's priced well and provides very good video quality. It uses Motion-JPEG as it's compression engine and does so at a full 640 x 480 image at 60 fields per second — as opposed to those CLONE cards that claim video capabilities but at 320 x 240 (oopsss, I shouldn't have let me bias show…). When combined with the Toccata audio board (the only way to go!) you now have complete audio and video (synced!) editing capabilities. It uses a timeline editing interface in one of two modes — a simple one that can handle most of your editing needs or the UPN mode that allows you to perform multiple effects/operations simultaneously at the expense of being a little harder to grasp. It's major draw back is that all effects/operations must be rendered by your Amiga's CPU and complicated things can take some time to complete. I don't have a problem with waiting for great results but your mileage may vary… EdV